Toys4RJill

I just like his passion for cars.

I like people/celebrities who are controversial.

RNM GS3

You don’t become #1 in any industry without being cutthroat and competitive. I think he helped screw Letterman from Tonight show and the other guy that took over briefly.

Still doesn’t change the fact he is a down to earth guy in person and comes across very genuine. Also one of the most well respected auto enthusiasts in the world.

Toys4RJill

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SW17LS

I agree on all counts...

Motorola

It's somewhat miraculous that the burns didn't reach his face. Awful accident, but could have been even worse and career-ending had it reached his face.

LeX2K

If Jay is a total jerk behind closed doors then he is one hell of an actor.

SW17LS

Nobody is or is not a jerk in all facets of their life. Well, some people are but he isn’t. He is a professional comedian, and he takes what he wants. He’s very good at it and he knows it, and he manipulates situations professionally to his own benefit at the expense of others. He’s made a lot of enemies in the business because of it. Like RNM said, every extremely successful person is like that professionally to some degree.

But he also is clearly humble and kind in many areas. His professional career is not one of those areas lol

Toys4RJill

Media is rigged. I am sure Conan and Dennis Miller are just as messed up.

SW17LS

Ive never heard anybody say that about Conan, quite the opposite. There’s a reason why basically everybody sided with Conan, because they know Jay and they know that he manipulated the situation to turn out how he wanted it to turn out.

Now Jay has a perspective too. Imagine you’re #1, the undisputed leader and they come to you and say “we don’t want to lose this guy Conan, so we want to plan for you to hand what you’ve worked your whole life for over to him in 5 years” when you still want to work and do so at a really high level…

Stroock639

he's also the guy who literally hid in the closets of NBC board meetings to find out if he was chosen for the show or not lmao... all that aside i've never seen him be rude to a fan or someone on the street who's showing interest

i'll always be grateful that there's someone with a car collection like that, who's actually willing to use and allow access to them for those who really care

Stroock639

conan paid for his entire staff's salary out of pocket during the interim between moving from NBC to TBS, and almost everyone that worked with him in NY moved out to LA to stay with the show... that alone speaks volumes toward conan's integrity

meanwhile it's difficult to find someone in 'the biz' who hasn't spoken out against jay leno at some point

Toys4RJill

Good for Conan 👍. His show flopped when he took over

Stroock639

you seem pretty uninformed on this so i'll just leave these two links here

Toys4RJill

‘Misinformed on what? Show tanked. I don’t care about character

SW17LS

That isn't true. It was never given a chance to succeed, and he was saddled with a new Leno show beforehand which was never in the cards. Whenever you have a new show its going to take time for it to catch on. The reason all of this happened was Leno didnt retire when he said he was going to, and they were afraid to lose him to another network, so they wanted to make his lead in show (which also was tanking) an hour and push the Tonight Show with Conan back to a later slot, and Conan refused. They didn't fire Conan.

if you look at the current leaders in late night, they are a lot more like Conan than they are Leno. Had Leno retired like he agreed to do Conan would have done great. In fact the most Leno-like host, Jimmy Fallon is now in last place.